The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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to us,
that
I will declare thy name unto my brethren,"
love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them." As we bow
in lowly, waiting silence before Him, the soul will hear Him
say My :
name and the love and the nearness of the Father will have new
the
Brother ! let me reveal to thee the Father. And the
meaning when I can say, Jesus calls me His brother! God
has spoken to me in His Son ! And I shall understand that,
to faith, the incomprehensible reality of oneness with Jesus
becomes the blessed, conscious experience
of the soul in its
daily life.
/. Union with Jesus in being born of God, in being holy, in being acknowledged by Him as a
brother I What a blessed life ! what a full salvation 1
2. "He that doeth the will of God, the same is My brother." Wouldst thou know the holy joy
of Jesus saying to thee, Brother Ilet thy life be what His was the doing of the will of Qod . It
was in this He was perfected in suffering. It is in this that His Spirit and life in thee will mani
fest itself, and the Brother-name will be the index not only of His compassion but of the oneness
in Spirit and the likeness in conduct which prove thee a son of God.
3. Sanctiflcation, holiness, is nothing more than a life in union with Jesus. Nothing more,
and nothing less. He that sanctijieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of One. To Hue in
that oneness, to have Jesus living in us, is the way to be holy.
4. "And again, I will put my trust In Him." Jesus lived by faith in God. He is the Leader
and Perfected offaith.
He opened up to us the path of faith and leads us in it.